According to MTV, JK Rowling will have a Female Force biography comic book released about her in December of this year.

Bluewater Productions, whose line of “Political Power” and “Female Force” comics featured many of the aforementioned figures, revealed to Splash Page that Rowling will be the next subject of their popular line of biography comic books. The comic promises to chronicle the “rags to riches story of a woman receiving government financial assistance through her ascendancy in becoming one of the world’s most recognizable writers.”

Written by Adam Gragg with interior art by Matthew Filer (“Masque of the Dragons”) and cover art by Joshua Labello, “Female Force: J.K. Rowling” will hit shelves in two formats: a standard, 23-page comic and a “double-sized collector’s edition.”

Pre-order it at Amazon here and Amazon UK here. Thanks SS!

Last month I posted about JK Rowling donating a drawing of a hand to a charity auction for a young girl named Tilly.  Robbie Coltrane also donated.  Now the auction is over and all together £32,000 was raised!

The hand donated by JK Rowling made £6,000!!!  Great job JKR!

In an upcoming speech that will be given by President Obama at a back to school event in Arlington, Virginia tomorrow, the President mentions Harry Potter and JK Rowling.  You can watch the speech tomorrow at 12:00 PM (EDT) at this link.

I know that sometimes, you get the sense from TV that you can be rich and successful without any hard work — that your ticket to success is through rapping or basketball or being a reality TV star, when chances are, you’re not going to be any of those things.

But the truth is, being successful is hard. You won’t love every subject you study. You won’t click with every teacher. Not every homework assignment will seem completely relevant to your life right this minute. And you won’t necessarily succeed at everything the first time you try.

That’s OK.  Some of the most successful people in the world are the ones who’ve had the most failures. JK Rowling’s first Harry Potter book was rejected twelve times before it was finally published. Michael Jordan was cut from his high school basketball team, and he lost hundreds of games and missed thousands of shots during his career. But he once said, “I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”

These people succeeded because they understand that you can’t let your failures define you – you have to let them teach you. You have to let them show you what to do differently next time. If you get in trouble, that doesn’t mean you’re a troublemaker, it means you need to try harder to behave. If you get a bad grade, that doesn’t mean you’re stupid, it just means you need to spend more time studying.

This just made my day, Mugglenet is reporting that JK Rowling is working on the Harry Potter Encyclopdia!  They state:

Ian Rankin, a friend of J.K. Rowling, revealed that the last time he saw her, she was working hard on the Encyclopedia. He also mentioned he saw her drawing up family trees.

It should be mentioned that Rankin said he has not seen Rowling in some time and that he didn’t know whether the encyclopedia was for her own fun or not.

I would like to add that even if she is working on it now, it still may be YEARS before it comes out, she had said after Deathly Hallows came out she would be taking her time and not rushing anything.  But its good to know that she has at least been seen working on it.

The Daily Record reports that J.K. Rowling has been longlisted for he Greatest Scot Of All Time award, in the Arts & Entertainment category. The winner will be announced on STV on St. Andrew’s Day. A series of programmes, beginning November 9th, will help the Scottish public decide who should win.

Thank you SS!

J.K. Rowling has contributed to a celebrity hand display which will help raise funds for Tilly Lockey, a young girl who needs prosthetic limbs that will need replacing every year until she is 18.  The pictures and casts will go on display at Newcastle’s Life centre for one day and then will be put up for auction at an event on September 5th. The exhibit is free of charge.

Sarah Lockey said: “We have all of these wonderful quirky and unique drawings and hand casts created by celebrities to help us raise funds for Tilly. These will be auctioned at a dinner in September but we wanted to share them with as many people as possible before they become part of someone’s private collection.”

Thanks SS!